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IN the course of the past few years, we have examined a number of chemical substances for their ability,to produce gene mutations. The experiments were carried out On Drosophila melanogaster. Some of the substances were found to be highly effective, producing mutation-rates of the same order as those obtained with X-rays, 6–24 per cent sex-linked lethals developing in treated X-chromosomes. These data will be published later.
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AUERBACH, C., ROBSON, J. Production of Mutations by Allyl Isothiocyanate. Nature 154, 81 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154081a0
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